Darwin Accomodation
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Darwin Accomodation
Hey Everybody.
I know a pilot who is leaving Darwin and needs to have his house rented out. If anyone is interested feel free to PM me.
Nice one.
I know a pilot who is leaving Darwin and needs to have his house rented out. If anyone is interested feel free to PM me.
Nice one.
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I thought this was going to be a request for accomodation. I was going to recommend the YMCA (if it's still there).
Handy and close to Beachcombers. Also there's a free fire hydrant outside that you and the locals can use for a wash now and then.
Then there's the Plagon-House in the bush nearby.... made from millions of sacred flagon bladders.
Handy and close to Beachcombers. Also there's a free fire hydrant outside that you and the locals can use for a wash now and then.
Then there's the Plagon-House in the bush nearby.... made from millions of sacred flagon bladders.
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Hello Clipster,
I have someone looking for a house in Darwin to start in the very short future.
Please PM with details,,,, (location, number of bedrooms, asking rent etc)
Cheers
Austin
I have someone looking for a house in Darwin to start in the very short future.
Please PM with details,,,, (location, number of bedrooms, asking rent etc)
Cheers
Austin
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Bagot Community
I suggest you try the Bagot Community.
It is a small friendly close knit community of people and just the right place for itinerants (people like you).
It is situated right in the middle of suburbia Darwin and close to everything. It is just down the road from the airport and so very convenient for any pilot.
It is actually on the main road half way between the city and the Northern suburbs/Casuarina shopping complex/airport. It has its own bus stop with good transport links to all over Darwin.
I believe it even has its own "community" take away food store, otherwise McDonalds is only a 5 minute walk down the road. There are maybe also a few pay phones on site/on the main road so you can ring up for jobs/be in contact.
For those athletes, the complex even includes tennis/basketball courts with night lighting.
The local women their are also very friendly so you'll never be lonely.
This would be the perfect introduction to the Territory.
Accomodation is fairly cheap, as you can shack up with the locals for maybe a carton or beer otherwise you can just camp out anywhere in the open or in the street like many others freely do.
They have built a large fence around the complex to stop you wandering out on the main road and getting run over after you've had a few drinks too many.
It even has a locator beacon named after it, so you'll be reminded of the good old Bagot Community everytime you fly.
I suggest you give the Bagot Community a try.
It is a small friendly close knit community of people and just the right place for itinerants (people like you).
It is situated right in the middle of suburbia Darwin and close to everything. It is just down the road from the airport and so very convenient for any pilot.
It is actually on the main road half way between the city and the Northern suburbs/Casuarina shopping complex/airport. It has its own bus stop with good transport links to all over Darwin.
I believe it even has its own "community" take away food store, otherwise McDonalds is only a 5 minute walk down the road. There are maybe also a few pay phones on site/on the main road so you can ring up for jobs/be in contact.
For those athletes, the complex even includes tennis/basketball courts with night lighting.
The local women their are also very friendly so you'll never be lonely.
This would be the perfect introduction to the Territory.
Accomodation is fairly cheap, as you can shack up with the locals for maybe a carton or beer otherwise you can just camp out anywhere in the open or in the street like many others freely do.
They have built a large fence around the complex to stop you wandering out on the main road and getting run over after you've had a few drinks too many.
It even has a locator beacon named after it, so you'll be reminded of the good old Bagot Community everytime you fly.
I suggest you give the Bagot Community a try.
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Never seen a real abo before Grumpy?
Come spend some time in the Top End communities before you pass judgment. Just ask any remote student nurse what they think of the poor aboriginals. No sympathy from them after a few weeks in the real world. As for Bagot…..well the new fence on Bagot Road looks nice.
Come spend some time in the Top End communities before you pass judgment. Just ask any remote student nurse what they think of the poor aboriginals. No sympathy from them after a few weeks in the real world. As for Bagot…..well the new fence on Bagot Road looks nice.
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When I was in the Territory I had a friend come and visit us who had taken part in the reconciliation march across Sydney Harbour bridge and who felt very sorry for these hard done by people.
After two weeks visiting us she had done a 180 degree flip and could not believe the lies the media and other organisations told in the capital cities about the situation.
Some people need to get out more, it is a big country with many varied and interesting peoples...
CB
After two weeks visiting us she had done a 180 degree flip and could not believe the lies the media and other organisations told in the capital cities about the situation.
Some people need to get out more, it is a big country with many varied and interesting peoples...
CB
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FYI
I have lived in Darwin (Knuckey St) and was the then Chief Minister's (Everingham) first press secretary in 1977-78. I have worked all over Australia and have just put two Torres Strait Islanders on a plane to fly home to Darnely and Duaun this afternoon. Took them to the National Museum to show them the fantastic ATSI displays.
Been into Arneham Land; into PNG including by C310 Cairns to Daru.
I know about Raintree Park and invalid port. What I said I will say a different way - using examples of aboriginal alcohol abuse in jest is quite clearly racial vilification.
In my 40 years in the workforce I suspect that I have seen more of aboriginal Australia than a lot of Australians including in Cobar, Lightning Ridge, Godooga; Birdsville, Broken Hill, Nyngan, Broome, Karratha, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rocky, Dingo, and a lot more.
I have lived in Darwin (Knuckey St) and was the then Chief Minister's (Everingham) first press secretary in 1977-78. I have worked all over Australia and have just put two Torres Strait Islanders on a plane to fly home to Darnely and Duaun this afternoon. Took them to the National Museum to show them the fantastic ATSI displays.
Been into Arneham Land; into PNG including by C310 Cairns to Daru.
I know about Raintree Park and invalid port. What I said I will say a different way - using examples of aboriginal alcohol abuse in jest is quite clearly racial vilification.
In my 40 years in the workforce I suspect that I have seen more of aboriginal Australia than a lot of Australians including in Cobar, Lightning Ridge, Godooga; Birdsville, Broken Hill, Nyngan, Broome, Karratha, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rocky, Dingo, and a lot more.
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So Grumpy, I guess you would be happy to hang your good clothes outside to dry in Wyndham or Broome? I'm sure your aboriginal neighbours wouldn't touch them. Would you also like to park your brand new car outside the pub in Halls creek for a night?
Don't try and blame alcohol for any of this either - normal people know when to stop normally.
This is NOT a racist attack toward aboriginals, some of them are very normal.
Cheers,
Tiger.
Don't try and blame alcohol for any of this either - normal people know when to stop normally.
This is NOT a racist attack toward aboriginals, some of them are very normal.
Cheers,
Tiger.
Reading between the lines there appears to be a change AWAy from the politically correct attitudes of our leaders of the past.
About time I say.
Politically correct ideals, did not, and never will help solve the problem, even the indigenous leaders are agreeing on that these days. Say it as it is I reckon.
About time I say.
Politically correct ideals, did not, and never will help solve the problem, even the indigenous leaders are agreeing on that these days. Say it as it is I reckon.
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Grumps maaate.
Have another latte, a bite of your quiche (oh sorry, that may be perceived as vilification……I mean bacon and egg pie) and a lie down.
Perhaps a green can would be more apt.
Bottoms up!
Have another latte, a bite of your quiche (oh sorry, that may be perceived as vilification……I mean bacon and egg pie) and a lie down.
Perhaps a green can would be more apt.
Bottoms up!
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Chaps (I know no one is female in this debate)
Come on - don't display your intellectual ingorance on the internet - everyone can see it.
Latte - give me a break that insult went out when you were still lusting over some idiot on page 3 of your normal newspaper 30 years ago. Take your hand off it and tackle my argument seriously. BTW did I meet you one drunken night in the pub in Kunnunra in 1991 - or Mount Isa the same year in the Irish Club?
I don't drink latte or chardonay - this is exactly what I am talking about. I drink quality red wine and Crownies. I do like quiche occasionally but only if I cook it myeslf. I gave up green cans in Darwin when I thought I should stop buying a slab and thinking if I drank the whole slab in a night it would improve my intellect!
Frontseatpassneger proves my point - he believes that everyone who expresses a contrary point of view has never seen an aboriginal, had one as a friend or been to the TOP END.
My father was in the Royal Australian Navy and was in the Top End when serious crimes were committed by Japanese pearling fleets during the 1950s - they went ashore and raped aboriginal women in Arnhem Land. He met aboriginals who had never seen white men before - I first went up there about 20 years later and was horrified at the impact of the white culture and the missionaries on their life.
Tiger77 - normal people knowing when to stop! Give me a break. Was that the idiots from both the Cronula white community and the Lebanese western Sydney community recently? That was white rascism at work and it generated an equally stupid counter-rascist response from the Lebansese gangs.
Yes - my house has been broken into - by some stupid white teenager who didn't know what to steal. He took the cheap stuff.
Go home and think about it fellas.
Grumpy
Come on - don't display your intellectual ingorance on the internet - everyone can see it.
Latte - give me a break that insult went out when you were still lusting over some idiot on page 3 of your normal newspaper 30 years ago. Take your hand off it and tackle my argument seriously. BTW did I meet you one drunken night in the pub in Kunnunra in 1991 - or Mount Isa the same year in the Irish Club?
I don't drink latte or chardonay - this is exactly what I am talking about. I drink quality red wine and Crownies. I do like quiche occasionally but only if I cook it myeslf. I gave up green cans in Darwin when I thought I should stop buying a slab and thinking if I drank the whole slab in a night it would improve my intellect!
Frontseatpassneger proves my point - he believes that everyone who expresses a contrary point of view has never seen an aboriginal, had one as a friend or been to the TOP END.
My father was in the Royal Australian Navy and was in the Top End when serious crimes were committed by Japanese pearling fleets during the 1950s - they went ashore and raped aboriginal women in Arnhem Land. He met aboriginals who had never seen white men before - I first went up there about 20 years later and was horrified at the impact of the white culture and the missionaries on their life.
Tiger77 - normal people knowing when to stop! Give me a break. Was that the idiots from both the Cronula white community and the Lebanese western Sydney community recently? That was white rascism at work and it generated an equally stupid counter-rascist response from the Lebansese gangs.
Yes - my house has been broken into - by some stupid white teenager who didn't know what to steal. He took the cheap stuff.
Go home and think about it fellas.
Grumpy
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RENURPP
Seeing this is an aviation forum, in 1991 I was managing the CAA AMATS pilot and industry education campaign and we started this in KUN and I managed some 40 workshops around the country running a program on how to use the new system (Alphabet airspace etc) and convincing you all that you weren't going to die because of it. I set up the Aviation/CAA Safety Promotion Unit.
In KUN over many beers the pilots said we were wrong and the closure of FS there would result in may deaths! Drank lots of beer. Argued.
Mount Isa - got smarter - drank Guiness - bought lots of Guiness for pilots - drank them under the table. Argued.
I always said that I knew that we were removing a service but my job was not to explain Dick Smith's strategy (affordable safety) but to try and help the pilots out there adjust to the new system and to fly it safely.
I think this was achieved because we never ever under estimated the ability of Oz pilots to fly their aeroplanes safely in any environment.
Cheers
Seeing this is an aviation forum, in 1991 I was managing the CAA AMATS pilot and industry education campaign and we started this in KUN and I managed some 40 workshops around the country running a program on how to use the new system (Alphabet airspace etc) and convincing you all that you weren't going to die because of it. I set up the Aviation/CAA Safety Promotion Unit.
In KUN over many beers the pilots said we were wrong and the closure of FS there would result in may deaths! Drank lots of beer. Argued.
Mount Isa - got smarter - drank Guiness - bought lots of Guiness for pilots - drank them under the table. Argued.
I always said that I knew that we were removing a service but my job was not to explain Dick Smith's strategy (affordable safety) but to try and help the pilots out there adjust to the new system and to fly it safely.
I think this was achieved because we never ever under estimated the ability of Oz pilots to fly their aeroplanes safely in any environment.
Cheers
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Grumpy, if you want a more rounded perspective then you should spend some time in say – Port Keats, Elcho Island, Snake Bay, Halls Creek and many more off the tourist track.
Why? You just have. It’s not the 1950s any more and it looks like the traditional elders are doing the raping now instead of the Japanese pearl fishermen. I know that did make national news a few weeks ago so I assume you are aware of this FACT.
If you are still in a position of influence and you want to make a real (I mean effective, not window dressing) difference then treat them all as Australians and apply Australian Law. Meaning – get them off the welfare. It is only hurting them and their cause.
Sorry, I won’t comment on the airspace – it will take up too much of my drinking time.
don't display your intellectual ingorance on the internet
If you are still in a position of influence and you want to make a real (I mean effective, not window dressing) difference then treat them all as Australians and apply Australian Law. Meaning – get them off the welfare. It is only hurting them and their cause.
Sorry, I won’t comment on the airspace – it will take up too much of my drinking time.
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Though this thread has evolved a long way from its origin, the topic has far greater importance for all of us than probably 98% of the aviation related posts on this forum. It is aviation related indirectly in that many pilots and operators have to face and wrestle with the host of issues alluded to in previous posts within both their professional and personal lives.
Anyone not having experienced Top End or outback communities would be horrified by some of the postings while those who have would have been nodding their heads in agreement. The television images of desolate, dirty, overcrowded and almost demolished communities raise levels of pity and the desire to bring about justice and equity in terms of living standards. They don’t realise that the reality of some communities is even worse.
Those who have had the pleasure of the experience have it indelibly scribed into their memory. No-one can easily forget or repress the images of a towering aboriginal man dragging his wife through the dust by her hair within spitting distance of the strip at Halls Creek, or the morning image of Broome’s litter strewn and otherwise very pretty central park or the humbugging and butt runs of aboriginal people in Darwin and Alice.
The former have a noble altruistic approach, sometimes tainted by political correctness but principally centred on the notion of giving all in this country a fair go. The latter have to deal with the sharp end of the issues on a daily, debilitating and depressing basis.
The sad thing is that neither side knows the solution - there is none. It is as unsolvable as the conflict in Iraq and as and world poverty is. To walk around major outback and Top End centres is to stroll through parallel universes. Two cultures live side by side most often with no acknowledgement or recognition of each other. It often appears as if each is invisible to the other, except for those occasions when they clash so heavily.
I’m not a black or white person. (that’s outlook not skin colour). I don’t put the majority of the blame on black or white individuals (that’s skin colour not outlook!) for either creating or perpetuating the sad state of play. Our ancestors bear that responsibility. My responsibility is to try to retain the empathy necessary to treat people with some dignity while those capable others attempt to improve the situation. Cause there but by the grace of God…..
LD
Anyone not having experienced Top End or outback communities would be horrified by some of the postings while those who have would have been nodding their heads in agreement. The television images of desolate, dirty, overcrowded and almost demolished communities raise levels of pity and the desire to bring about justice and equity in terms of living standards. They don’t realise that the reality of some communities is even worse.
Those who have had the pleasure of the experience have it indelibly scribed into their memory. No-one can easily forget or repress the images of a towering aboriginal man dragging his wife through the dust by her hair within spitting distance of the strip at Halls Creek, or the morning image of Broome’s litter strewn and otherwise very pretty central park or the humbugging and butt runs of aboriginal people in Darwin and Alice.
The former have a noble altruistic approach, sometimes tainted by political correctness but principally centred on the notion of giving all in this country a fair go. The latter have to deal with the sharp end of the issues on a daily, debilitating and depressing basis.
The sad thing is that neither side knows the solution - there is none. It is as unsolvable as the conflict in Iraq and as and world poverty is. To walk around major outback and Top End centres is to stroll through parallel universes. Two cultures live side by side most often with no acknowledgement or recognition of each other. It often appears as if each is invisible to the other, except for those occasions when they clash so heavily.
I’m not a black or white person. (that’s outlook not skin colour). I don’t put the majority of the blame on black or white individuals (that’s skin colour not outlook!) for either creating or perpetuating the sad state of play. Our ancestors bear that responsibility. My responsibility is to try to retain the empathy necessary to treat people with some dignity while those capable others attempt to improve the situation. Cause there but by the grace of God…..
LD